Shouldn't the unemployed organize and rally? Change America!!!!

[goforit]

For all those unemployed out there, you all should organize like
the Move-on org did against the war and become a force to be
bargained with of your own.

You all can make this country stronger if you unite behind the
cause of getting back to work and kicking the WH out!!!

Create your own WEB. Communicate for a solution!

Don't mind me .....I know I'm one to talk, but unfortunately
I'm not very skilled at creating sites.

What ever talent is out there ....just Go for it!!!

[Booberdawg]

1. good idea

and lord knows we have plenty of time on our hands

[DieboldMustDie]

5. But not much money

:(

[villager]

2. Martin Luther King had this idea in 1968...

...he was set to focus on, and lead, a "poor people's march on Washington" right after the garbage strike in Memphis, as he began to see all the other "separate" issues -- racism, the war -- in the context of the American economy.

And you saw how the system responded. That was "too big a lens" for MLK to be carrying around, and speaking out about...

If someone was coming close to pulling it off now... well, let's just say they better stay the hell out of private planes, in the least...

[DagmarK]

3. well, let me work through my SHAME and DEPRESSION first........

then I will head right on out there! LOL

No kidding.....unemployment really demoralizes a person. Me at least.

[InkAddict]

7. You're not alone and...

there are so many untold consequences. I well imagine that for every one out of work, the effects must touch millions more. Marriages are breaking, people are grieving the losses of homes, educations, careers, hobbies; communities are unable to continue to provide services so desperately needed, and caretakers of the very young and the very old are struggling to keep their loved ones healthy...and B* goes on yet another live-it-up vacation.

I'm sorry, this has taken me way too long to write...the mind just skates through so much heartsickness....I must move on

:scared: :scared:

[jagguy]

4. I'm a little busy looking for a job

and I doubt making a web page will get me one

[stevedeshazer]

6. Sure, why not the homeless, too

Seems like a good idea on the face of it, but I probably had more time to devote to this sort of thing when I was employed eight months ago than I do now, what with finding ways to scrape by with less and looking for gainful employment and doing odd jobs to fill the gaps.

[Ouabache]

8. It HAS been done before; it IS a good idea !!

from Arthur Schlesinger Jr's The Crisis of the Old Order:

"In some localities discontent found constructive expression...Unemployed Citizen's Leagues were formed to permit the unemployed to pool their services and products....Seattle had a particularly strong one with 40,000 persons utilizing its' self-help programs....by the end of 1932 there were probably over 100 organizations in over 30 states...many of them developing their own systems of scrip"" <<rough quotes, pg.251

Many communities also formed "Unemployed Councils", often organized by the communist party...several of these were particularly strong in TEXAS.

"The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know."
---Harry Truman.

[RandomKoolzip]

9. As long as those of us who ARE employed and earning less than

30 thou a year working two jobs get to join in too!